X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters would be sent to detention camps

Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.

Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.

In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

The fake piece, purportedly written by a senior news reporter for the Telegraph and mocked up in the newspaper’s style, said camps in the Falklands “would be used to detain prisoners from the ongoing riots as the British prison system is already at capacity”.

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Musk has not apologised for sharing the fake report, but has continued to share material criticising the UK government and law enforcement authorities’ responses to the riots.

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On Thursday, Musk shared a Sky News interview in which Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions in England and Wales, said police officers were scouring social media for material inciting racial hatred. “This is actually happening,” Musk said. In a separate post referring to the same clip, Musk called Parkinson “The Woke Stasi”.

Musk has been embroiled in a row with Keir Starmer and British enforcement authorities since he claimed in response to the anti-immigration protests in England and Northern Ireland that “civil war is inevitable” and that the police response had been “one-sided”.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPAEnglish
    47·
    4 months ago

    From the article:

    The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS trust said in a post on Thursday that it was closing its account on X after 13 years because the platform is “no longer consistent with our Trust values”. It directed followers to Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

    Good start but the UK government needs to knock Xitter on the head. I’ve previously posted about it here. I wonder if it is worth starting a petition…

    • palordrolap@kbin.run
      102·
      4 months ago

      It directed followers to Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

      Three more piles of manure, two from the same stable. There’s no accounting for taste.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPAEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        It was disappointing. It’s like they are so close to making the leap and yet they have tripped over their own feet.

    • br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      4 months ago

      The thing is, they’re now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?

  • dirtybeerglass [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    • 20 years ago he was no one.

    • 15 years ago he promises people cars that drives themselves, other magical toys. Never builds them. People agree he is a visionary inventor

    • 10 years ago starts talking about living on Mars. Gets into argument with astrophysicists. Now widely considered an expert on space, thanks to media. Remains wildly unqualified to even speak on the matter.

    • 5 years ago - now he’s an AI expert and people want to know his views on the future of humanity. starts chirping on politics. Now having direct conversations with government ministers about political ideologies.

    He Plays people like a fiddle. Not seen anyone this skilled at peddling tripe since Jesus.

    When he’s Earth President, don’t say no one told his method.

    • palordrolap@kbin.run
      7·
      4 months ago

      At the risk of ripping off a quote often attributed to Gandhi:

      Jesus had some great ideas. The people that follow him, not so much.

  • Charzard4261@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    Obviously he doesn’t spend enough time causing issues for his own companies and country, that he has to try and stir shit across the pond to cure his boredom.

    How about doing something good with that spare time for once?

    • nickb333@fedia.io
      101·
      4 months ago

      He (and his platform) are a distraction. There are more important things happening that people are missing.